Adams called Matt Lauer a “tosspot,” savaged NBC for making people on the West Coast wait six hours to watch the opening ceremonies and shared NBC Olympics President Gary Zenkel’s work email address. Emails Koblin reproduces from Twitter say Adams got his account yanked because of that last one.

Adams replied to Twitter, saying Zenkel’s email address is “widely available to anyone with access to Google” and follows the same naming protocol as other NBC employees. For what it’s worth, I tried to find Zenkel’s email via Google but couldn’t verify Adams’ contention because of a rash of stories about Adams. Pumping that address into Rapportive brings up Zenkel’s profile, and it does follow the same convention as other NBC employees I’ve emailed.

An NBC spokesman gave The Wall Street Journal this explain today: “Our interest was in protecting our executive, not suspending the user from Twitter. We didn’t initially understand the repercussions of our complaint, but now that we do, we have rescinded it.”UPDATED

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=749911534 Anonymous

Twitter is nothing but an online bully pulpit for gangs of bullies and people who like to abuse others online without fear of getting “caught” (scare quotes mine) or called on the carpet. Facebook has stronger policies. Twitter has nada. That is why so many jerks use Twitter now to abuse others. Guy Adams just found out the hard way. Watch. this story has legs.

friend on twitter tells me just now re Jeff Jarvis rant on same: ”oh god, the guy posted a private email on twitter and journalists get the vapors. sheesh. then we have some journalists saying, “i can google his name and find his email.” IT’S NOT IN TWITTERS EULA THAT TWITTER HAS TO GOOGLE THE GUYS NAME FIRST. the guy lives in the UK, gets the olympics live, and he’s bitching about NBC? huh? hey guy adams, NBC paid almost $2 billion and your ego thought that you could change their programming? Really dude, you thought that? NBC has been working on this Olympics SINCE THIS WAS ANNOUNCED and you thought by posting a private email on twitter was going to change that? Again…really? Calm the F down and take your lumps in public and in the future, DO NOT POST PRIVATE WORK EMAILS when it clearly says in twitters EULA, not do do that. Oy vey. This whole thing has gotten journalists in such “uproar” it’s comical.”

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=749911534 Anonymous

No no no no. Guy Adams was in the wrong, Face it, and stop the conspiracy theories. I have noticed that recently TWITTER has become a bullying pulpit and an abuse platform unlike FACEBOOOK, where there are strict policies. Twittter has become the place to be a bully and abuse other and get away with it, just like online anonymous comments where people gang up on others. Guy Adams erred. admit it Guy. i hope this is a big wake up call for Twitter and all tritter users. STOP abusing tweets. Guy has inadvertently become a “hot tweet potato” yes , and scare quotes mine, but it’s his fault …Guy Adams he DID publish the eamil address of NBC and that is a NO-NO according to Twitter rules. yes or no?Read more: http://news.techeye.net/internet/twitter-loses-news-source-credibility#ixzz22FxOtlUy

http://twitter.com/jsalsman James Salsman

There are at least eight mentions of Zenkel’s email address visible in Google search when the date is restricted to before the 26th. It is neither non-public nor personal. Use “Advanced search tools.”

http://twitter.com/jsalsman James Salsman

There are at least eight mentions of Zenkel’s email address visible in Google search when the date is restricted to before the 26th. It is neither non-public nor personal. Use “Advanced search tools.”

http://www.thisistrue.com Randy Cassingham

“It is a violation of the Twitter Rules to post the private and confidential information of others.”
“Except, it’s not. Felix Salmon points out that Twitter’s rules contain no such prohibition.”